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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
Savannah City Hall and its golden dome, Savannah
SavannahSavannah City Hall and its golden dome

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Porto or Savannah?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Porto for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’s own page.

Choose Savannah for

  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Porto 40, Savannah 55: Savannah leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Savannah 58: Porto leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Porto and Savannah are level on 68.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Savannah 52: Porto leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Savannah 48: Porto leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Savannah 60: Porto leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Savannah 50: Porto leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Savannah 58: Porto leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Porto 52, Savannah 42: Porto leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Porto 62, Savannah 35: Porto leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Savannah 40: Porto leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto 34, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Savannah.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Savannah
51match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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PortoSavannah

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortoSavannah
Official languagePortuguese-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation104 m15 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSavannah
City population273,476147,780
People per km²6,606524
Museums within 10 km4219
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone6 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.